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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case against enlarging the council to admit secondary states appears to be well-founded on the twin arguments of unwieldiness and the prerogatives of large nations. And since neither England, Italy, or Germany desire such expansion, the question is practically answered in the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GAME OF NATIONS | 6/12/1926 | See Source »

...aesthetic and artistic side of the question it is to be hoped that even New England architects can adorn a gymnasium with spacious porticos and massive columns such that the holy ones might risk a glance. Alexis de Tarnowsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Re Sin | 6/9/1926 | See Source »

...these things are recognized throughout the educational world. It is a question of their maximum application through slowly changing practice. And it must be remembered that there is no such thing as an educational process that teaches method in the abstract. Method works on and through facts as inseparably as energy exists through matter. Moreover, there is some intrinsic value in specific facts. Each aye has its environmental permancies: To learn of them, though the process he simply memorizing, is even necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYSTACK | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...natural that the minds of thinking men, and particularly of those men who have made a lifelong study of the affairs of nations, should be occupied with the question of war, its causes, and the methods for its prevention. The period immediately after the Great War was one chiefly of recriminations. Men of more moderate tendencies reserved their opinions until passions should have had time to cool. In the last year or two, however, there has been a flood of literature upon the subject. Some of it is frankly partisan, assessing the war guilt with mathematical precision, and assuming...

Author: By W. S. Hayward., | Title: History and the Point of View | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...aesthetic and artistic side of the question--are the ignorant judgments of undergraduates to be weighed against some of the finest architects in New England? This vignette of loveliness planted among the ancient elms in the Yard will be a true religious inspiration to all thinking souls. Its spacious porticos and massive columns will be an inducement to thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness. It will be an basis of holiness in a desert of sin. Anthony Feathersione...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

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